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<p>[Page 67]</p><p>said he had signed but claimed that such a letter, before it actually reached its addressees, was not to be considered in existence. He said the instigators had promised not to send the letter off until after the assembly, which our attack now rendered impossible. In response to Mr Meyer's utterances, seeing there was no way forward, we declared that since the libellous letter was not going to be publicly disclosed, we would have to leave the assembly and distance ourselves from all further camp affairs until the matter had been settled. All up, about 200 men left with Burkard, Wehrs and Hering, so the schism was complete. Those remaining deliberated the new statutes and ended up making various changes. A committee of 5 men is to be elected shortly, and we will see how Berblingen behaves. I do feel sad about having severed so many longstanding ties. I had pondered the matter long and hard but could not come to any other decision. The letter is too heinous! From the Singapore crowd, Brennecke, Läbking, Wittpenn, Elmenhorst, Wahl, Wumertz </p>